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Richard Dawkins Quotes

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: March 26, 1941

Topics

Nature Simple More Difficult Explain

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Peace Fantasy Never Parade Little

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Power Think Greed Hypocrisy Driven

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

World Try Just Observing Rather

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

Job Finding Boring Much Really

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

History Survive Lesson New Important

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Work Food Same Eat Years Still

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Great Me Know Always Confession

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

Competition People Writing End You

I like it in Manchester. I thought it was going to be much colder, but it is not too bad. And my wife and son are happy here, too.

Son Wife Happy Thought Bad Going

Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Marriage God Hope Political Gay

You watch someone, and you see how they are, and sometimes you can use that against them.

Someone You Sometimes See Against

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Lennart Nilsson

Face Picture Remember Say Inside

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